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Much of the action is concentrated in the low-lying forests and farm land that stretch out south of Cheboygan. Ernest Hemingway set some of the action for his Nick Adams stories in this area. Noted until now for little more than its austere beauty and fine lake fishing, the region these days features increasingly frequent sightings of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen in boots and cowboy hats, and New York and Dallas bankers in Brooks Brothers suits. "I don't think anyone is being too optimistic," says the state's Lieutenant Governor, James Brickley. "I find oil people...
Pony Boy. If George Humphrey were just a traditionalist he probably would now be the best known and most prosperous lawyer in mid-Michigan. George was born in 1890 in Cheboygan and raised in Saginaw, where his father, Watts Humphrey, was a hearty, roaring trial lawyer with an excellent practice. His mother, a former schoolteacher, was a wise and gentle parent and a political diehard (all through the New Deal she spelled Roosevelt with a small...
Steering Committee. In Cheboygan, Mich., the town fathers solemnly passed an ordinance calling for a $5 fine on any motorist caught driving with a woman...
Family & Early Years: Born at Cheboygan, Mich, of Scottish-English ancestry. His father, Watts S. Humphrey, was a lawyer. After taking engineering courses along the way, George graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1912, became the second Humphrey in his father's firm (Humphrey, Grant & Humphrey) in Saginaw. In 1913, he married Pamela Stark, his school-day sweetheart. They have two daughters and a son (another son died), and eight grandchildren...
...having the largest income is the University of Michigan, which has $300,000 a year at its disposal. Harvard comes next, while Yale and Columbia are close together. In property bequeathed by private individuals Harvard leads all the rest, of course, its entire endowment practically coming from that source. - [Cheboygan Democrat...
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